We Should Not Use Torture Methods
WE SHOULD NOT USE TORTURE ON SUSPECTED TERRORISTS
Torture, as a simple definition, is the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as punishment or in order to force them to do or say something. When we see it done on our TV screens we think it’s revolting; we find it hard to watch, even though it’s faked and censored in comparison to actual methods used. This practice is usually done using covert methods, and is ineffective. It’s unethical and damaging, especially when it is practiced on those who are only suspected terrorists; not convicted. It’s a sickening violation of ones humanity and should not be practiced on suspected terrorists.
Torture, while it’s methods are overt, is usually conducted very covertly and therefore …show more content…
This is what torture is. Torture is not an effective method of interrogation. Statements can be falsely made by suspects in order to make the interrogators stop torturing. The Senate report yields information stating that 7 of 39 detainees exposed to especially violent methods bore no intelligence; others suspected provided more useful information when subjected to less harsh techniques. Some suspects who were harshly interrogated even made up information just to make their torturers stop for a while. Mark Costanzo and Ellen Gerrity, two American research psychologists quoted a CIA operative who contributed to torture during the Vietnam War as stating “We had people who were willing to confess to anything if we would just stop torturing them.” Even the US Army Field Manual details that the most useful information is obtained through humane treatment, that torture produces false intelligence. If torture is going to provide us with useless and false information, why bother using it in the first place? It’s unnecessary and repulsively cruel; suspected terrorists don’t deserve to be subjected to such treatment. Regardless of what they have or haven’t done, should we become that which we are trying to
Torture, as a simple definition, is the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as punishment or in order to force them to do or say something. When we see it done on our TV screens we think it’s revolting; we find it hard to watch, even though it’s faked and censored in comparison to actual methods used. This practice is usually done using covert methods, and is ineffective. It’s unethical and damaging, especially when it is practiced on those who are only suspected terrorists; not convicted. It’s a sickening violation of ones humanity and should not be practiced on suspected terrorists.
Torture, while it’s methods are overt, is usually conducted very covertly and therefore …show more content…
This is what torture is. Torture is not an effective method of interrogation. Statements can be falsely made by suspects in order to make the interrogators stop torturing. The Senate report yields information stating that 7 of 39 detainees exposed to especially violent methods bore no intelligence; others suspected provided more useful information when subjected to less harsh techniques. Some suspects who were harshly interrogated even made up information just to make their torturers stop for a while. Mark Costanzo and Ellen Gerrity, two American research psychologists quoted a CIA operative who contributed to torture during the Vietnam War as stating “We had people who were willing to confess to anything if we would just stop torturing them.” Even the US Army Field Manual details that the most useful information is obtained through humane treatment, that torture produces false intelligence. If torture is going to provide us with useless and false information, why bother using it in the first place? It’s unnecessary and repulsively cruel; suspected terrorists don’t deserve to be subjected to such treatment. Regardless of what they have or haven’t done, should we become that which we are trying to